The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency issued a request for proposals for new construction or the rehabilitation of mixed-use projects seeking financial support. This year, its focus is on smaller cities such as Bethlehem, Reading and Harrisburg.

The City of Allentown has filed a federal complaint in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania seeking to recover costs from what the city alleges was false, deceptive, and unfair marketing of prescription opioids by 20 defendants.

Lehigh Valley Health Network has announced a new partnership with IKS Health; a Burr Ridge, Illinois based health care solutions organization.
The partnership aims to bring innovative technology to LVHN that will improve physician and patient satisfaction through improved efficiency.

New York (CNN Business)Papa John’s has a new CEO. But will Rob Lynch, formerly the president of red hot sandwich chain Arby’s, have the chops to turn the struggling pizza chain around? Continue reading

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay in a settlement. Continue reading

In a sign of the times, many employers are enacting workplace policies to address gender issues and show respect to people who may want to be called by names and pronouns that reflect their gender identities rather than their biological characteristics at birth.